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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of Maria and the man's conversation as they drive to get her abortion?
(a) Politics.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Money.
(d) Cars.

2. Maria claimed she was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be _____ than what went out on the last.
(a) Worse.
(b) Better.
(c) The same.
(d) None of the above.

3. In the hospital, what does Maria try NOT to think about?
(a) Dead things and plumbing.
(b) Movies and red roses.
(c) The ocean and newspapers.
(d) Winter mornings and ice tea.

4. According to Maria, why did her family move to Silver Wells?
(a) Because her father owned the town.
(b) Because the weather was nice.
(c) Because they were running from the law.
(d) Because she got a job there.

5. What is the name of the street where the doctor Maria went to see about the pregnancy practices?
(a) Wilshire.
(b) Hollywood.
(c) Sunset.
(d) Melrose.

6. What season is it when Carter stops living in the house in Beverly Hills?
(a) Spring.
(b) Winter.
(c) Fall.
(d) Summer.

7. What type of bird does Maria watch at the hospital as the novel opens?
(a) A woodpecker.
(b) A blue jay.
(c) A hummingbird.
(d) A sparrow.

8. According to Maria, what did Carter do after she married him?
(a) Write a book about her.
(b) Take her to Paris.
(c) Bring her to the hospital.
(d) Put her in his pictures.

9. According to Maria, what was "something no one in the city liked to be near"?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Success.
(d) Trouble.

10. How does everything look to Maria as she leaves the house where she had her abortion?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Frightening.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Eerie.

11. According to Carter, when Maria responds to his statement about dining out, who continues to look directly at her?
(a) Carter.
(b) BZ.
(c) Helene.
(d) No one.

12. How is Maria playing on the lawn with the baby as Carter recalls in the beginning of the novel?
(a) She is tossing a ball to her.
(b) She is picking dandelions for her.
(c) She is blowing bubbles to her.
(d) She is tossing water to her.

13. What is Maria consumed by after her mother's death when she lived in New York?
(a) Questions about the universe, the nature of death.
(b) Questions about what her mother was doing, thinking.
(c) Questions about working, saving for retirement.
(d) Questions about what her father was doing, where he was.

14. At the house where Maria has her abortion, what is the doctor's table NOT fitted with?
(a) Stirrups.
(b) Legs.
(c) Drawers.
(d) Cushions.

15. When Maria visits Kate at the hospital and warns the nurse about Kate's nightmares, what does Maria realize about getting an abortion?
(a) That she expected she would get pregnant again.
(b) That she expected she wouldn't go through with it.
(c) That she expected to die.
(d) That she expected it wouldn't be her last.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Helene, what is often true of selfish women?

2. What does she buy at Saks that she can't fit into her Corvette?

3. What object does Maria later try to remember if the doctor took with him when he left the bedroom?

4. What does BZ tell Maria about an actress who was admitted to UCLA Neuropsychiatric?

5. According to Helene, who are the people BZ's mother Carlotta "can't bear"?

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